The Department

The Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT) is the largest of the 16 departments at ETH Zurich. About 50 professors work in eight institutes, with additional three independent professors.

D-MAVT combines mechanical engineering disciplines with processes and the related field of chemical engineering. Due to this synergistic background research activities cross disciplinary boundaries and range from biomedical technologies to material sciences, from physics to chemistry and chemical engineering, and from mathematics to civil and, of course, mechanical engineering.

D-MAVT’s objective is to leverage this unique breadth of expertise to promote interdisciplinary projects and address today’s grand challenges: Ensuring Healthy Lives, Reinventing Manufacturing, Revolutionizing Mobility and Transportation, and Providing Sustainable Energy.

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Vision

To be a world-leading, open, diverse, creative, and collaborative center of excellence, in which the brightest minds – from undergraduate students to professors – continuously push and responsibly redefine the frontiers in mechanical and process engineering education, science and technology, while developing solutions for the societal challenges of our time.

Mission statement

By leveraging our core competencies in mechanics and materials; energy, flows and processes; robotics and control; and design and manufacturing, our mission is to address the pressing societal problems of our time through education, research and innovation with a particular focus on (i) reinventing manufacturing for the digital age and a circular economy, (ii) revolutionizing mobility and transportation across scales by pioneering autonomous systems, human-machine interactions and robotics, (iii) providing sustainable energy solutions on local and global scales, and (iv) ensuring healthy lives by merging engineering and life sciences.

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